Object structure
Title:

Traditional burning of pots (Iconographic document)

Creator:

Demski, Dagnosław

Place of publishing:

[Ajmer] ; Ajmer District ; Rajasthan

Date issued/created:

[1992]

Description:

Photography (scan from a slide). Picture of poor quality. Burning of pots in a traditional method. Manufacturers set the mound, where ignite charcoal, and in the outer part put together molded from clay pots. The entire production leads family belongs to the caste of potters (kumbhar), and this is done in part (phaliya) of the city inhabited by potters. Around the mound is standing the wall separating from the other plots, and multi-story house. In the picture can be seen the number of men engaged in the work and women dressed in the saris

Type of object:

Ethnographic object

Subject and Keywords:

ethnography ; social culture ; social life ; material culture ; burning of pots ; potters

Resource type:

Obraz

Detailed Resource Type:

Photography

Format:

text/html

Source:

part 2, box 1, 0039

Rights:

Rights Reserved - Free Access

Terms of use:

Copyright-protected material. May be used within the limits of statutory user freedoms

Digitizing institution:

Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Original in:

Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Projects co-financed by:

Programme Innovative Economy, 2010-2014, Priority Axis 2. R&D infrastructure ; European Union. European Regional Development Fund

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